The above mentioned centuries are according to the birth of those scholars. But a Mujaddid of a century is known to be the one who is born in the previous century but his Tajdid (revival) occurs in the next century. Hence the above names be considered the Mujaddids of the next centuries.

I will continue this list by the century in which the Mujaddid did the revival of Islam.

First Century

The first century of Hijri calendar marks the start of Islam. The line of Mujaddids starts from the 2nd century (after the first hundred years of the demise of Rasoolullah s.a.w.).

Second Century

The great caliph of Islam, Imam Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz (61-101 AH) is widely acclaimed to be the very first Mujaddid of Islam. He was a caliph for a very short duration (1 to 2 years), but he did great works in that short while.

Other suggested names:

Imam Abu Hanifa (80-148 A.H) – the greatest Imam of Fiqh

Third Century

The great Imam and founder of the 2nd largest Sunni school of jurisprudence, Imam al-Shafi’i

Forth Century

Imam Ibn Surayj and Imam al-Ash`ari

Fifth Century

Sixth Century

Imam al-Ghazzali (considered by Imam al-Suyuti)

Hadhrat Abu Yusuf Hamadani (440-535 A.H) – He was the shaykh of Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani, Khwaja Mueenuddin Ajmeri, as well as the grandsheikh of Naqshbandi tariqah Khwaja Abdul Khaliq Ghijdwani. All the major Sufi orders have directly benefited from him.

Seventh Century

Imam Fakhraddin al-Razi and al-Rafi`i (considered by Imam al-Suyuti)

Khwaja Mueen al-Din al-Hasan al-Sanjri al-Ajmeri (535-633 A.H) – He was the Imam of the Chishti sufi tariqah, and with his efforts a significant part of the Indian population converted to Islam

Eighth Century

Ibn Daqiq al-`Id (625-702) (considered by al-Suyuti)

Ninth Century

Al-Bulqini and al-Iraqi (considered by al-Suyuti)

Tenth Century

Imam Jalaluddin al-Suyuti (849-911 AH)

11th century

Shaykh Ahmad al-Faruqi of Sirhind, India (d. 1034) – unanimously accepted as the only Mujaddid of 11th century as well as the 2nd millennium of Islam, hence called Mujaddid Alf Thani (Mujaddid of the 2nd Millenium). He received this noble post of Mujaddid in 1010 AH, exactly after 1000 years of the demise of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him. He is the Mujaddid of a millenium, not only a century.

12th century

Al-Qutb `Abd Allah al-Haddad of Hadramawt, Yemen

The great Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir Mujaddidi Masoomi of Delhi, India. He established the Islamic governance in India, and he was a murid (disciple) of Imam Muhammad Masum al-Sirhindi in the Naqshbandi path, and was also revered by most Sufi saints of his time.

13th century

Hadhrat Abdullah Mujaddidi alias Shah Ghulam Ali Dehlavi of Delhi, India (1158-1240 A.H) – most widely acclaimed, as he was the Shaykh of Khalid al-Baghdadi and lived almost the same times

Shaykh Muhammad Amin `Abidin (Ibn `Abidin) of Damascus – a student of Shaykh Khalid al-Baghdadi
(Shaykh G.F Haddad has named both of them, shaykh Khalid and his student Ibn Abidin, as the Mujaddids of 13th century)

Shaykh Usman Dan Fodio (1168-1232 AH) who revived Islam in Africa and established Islamic government

14th century

Imam Ahmad Rada Khan Barelvi of India, most widely acclaimed for his defending the right path of Ahl as-Sunnah against the widespread fitna of Wahhabism

Shaykh Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari of Turkey

Shaykh Badr al-Din al-Hasani of Damascus, Syria

Sheikh Ahmad ibn Mustafa al-Alawi (1869–1934)

Hadhrat Pir Fazal Ali Qureshi Naqshbandi of India (d.1934), the greatest Naqshbandi shaykh in India in the fourteenth century

15th century

Today, there are numerous great scholars of Islam continuously reviving the spirit of Islam and working hard day and night to reform the Muslims in the whole world. It is hard to decide or single out one of them, and only time will show the real Mujaddid or Mujaddids of 15th century.

13 Responses to The Reformers of Islam (Mujaddid)

what you’re waiting for my brother that who’ll be 15th century muaddid.
there is no mujaddid of 15th century except Hazrat Mahdi (R.A)
He will have the knowledge of ten Scholars and there is no one who could claim that he is the Mujaddid of 15th century except Hadhrat Mahdi (R.A) So why do you wait for another……you should be sure about the 15th century mujaddid that the Mahdi (R.A) will be Mujaddid of 15th Century

Sheikh Abdullah Harari was a scholar and mufti. However he promoted some beliefs contrary to the Aqidah of Ahl as-Sunnah, particularly declaring some of the greatest Sahaba as sinful (fasiq) and ignorant (jahil). He also attributes Kufr to not only the deviant sects but to many of the great Sunni scholars. His extremism is not the right way of Tajdid.

Ghousul Waqt, Mufti-e-Azam-e-Hind (radi Allahu anhu) was born on Monday, 22nd of Zil Hijjah 1310 AH (18 July 1892) in the most beautiful city of Bareilly Shareef, India. It was in this very city that his illustrious father, the Mujaddid (Reviver) of Islam, Imam-e-Ahle Sunnat, A’la Hazrat, Ash Shah Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Al Qaderi (radi Allahu anhu) was born (1856 – 1921).